Short answer: How to migrate one project from Slack. Put the current file, the decision and the next owner in one channel. Basic is 9 USD per paid account a month, or 86 USD a year, with 25 GiB. The trial is 3 days. The iPhone and iPad app is coming soon. The encryption scope is on the security page.
Move one Slack project, keep the export, and leave the rest of the company where it is. There is no automatic Slack import.
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Export, then move one project
There is no automatic Slack import. Ask the workspace owner for the export your plan allows, open it, and check that the decisions you still need are in it. Then recreate one project as a channel, upload the files that project still uses, and invite only the people on that job.
Leave the rest in place
A company-wide cutover hides which handover failed. Run the one project until a person who was away can find the file. Keep the Slack export until you sign off. Only then decide whether a second project is worth the same work. For a staged company move, read the enterprise migration guide. enterprise migration guide
What moves, and what stays in Slack
There is no automatic Slack import. Export what your plan allows, open the file, and mark the decisions this one project still needs. Recreate that project as a channel, upload the files it still uses, and invite only those people. Leave every other Slack room where it is, including the social channels. Keep the export until a person who was away can find the current file in BusyVault without a tour. Basic is 9 USD a month with 25 GiB per paid account. Do not buy seats for the whole company to test one handover. A second project is a decision you make after the first one is boring.
Sign off before you delete anything
Keep the Slack export until the BusyVault channel has passed the test. The test is a person who was away finding the current file and the next owner without a tour. Until that happens, the old room is still the record, and deleting it to make the new tool look finished is how decisions disappear. There is no automatic import, so what you did not copy is not in the new channel. Copy only this project's files and open decisions. Leave announcements and social rooms in Slack. After the sign-off, choose a second project or stop. Stopping is a successful migration of the one job you actually needed. Seats for everyone else can wait until that job is boring.
Worked example for this guide
Use “How to migrate one project from Slack” on one project that is already late, not as a policy for the whole company. Write the current file name, the decision and the next owner in the same channel before the day ends. A teammate who was away should find that trio without opening the call recording. If they cannot, the article has not been applied yet. Repeat the check the next morning. Count a written handover as done only when the second person opens the right file first.
Files, history and the next owner
On How to migrate one project from Slack, keep the file next to the sentence that approved it. Slack documents a 1 GB cap on one upload and, on the Free plan, 90 days of visible history. Those two limits are the public facts this site already cites.
BusyVault bills storage per paid account: 25 GiB on Basic and 100 GiB on Pro. Extra storage is 0.03 USD per GiB a month after you confirm the charge. Basic is 9 USD a month or 86 USD a year. Pro is 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year. One subscription does not cover the team.
The trial is 3 days and 10 GiB. Use it to upload a real file and to search for a decision, not to announce a company-wide move. If the file does not fit or the old decision cannot be found, say so in the channel before you promise the room is the archive.
Where the app runs
BusyVault runs in the browser and can be installed from Chrome or Edge on Windows, macOS and Linux. The Android app is on Google Play and uses the same account. The iPhone and iPad app is coming soon. Enterprise customers can run BusyVault on their own servers under a separate contract. There is no public installer on this site for that path. This page does not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA.
A check you can finish this week
For How to migrate one project from Slack, finish four lines and stop. Line one is the project name. Line two is the channel name. Line three is where the current file lives. Line four is the next owner. Add one rule for meetings: what must be decided live, and what must be written down the same day.
Ask someone who was not on the call to find the file without help. If they open the right channel first, the structure works. If they search three threads and still ask which version is current, move the file to the channel and leave a pointer. Owners and administrators can export a BusyVault backup from workspace or channel settings. After a restore, check the text, the file references and who can open them. Keep the original files until that check passes. Product questions go to the address on the support page.